1.5V Overclocking

[virtualTune]

So I like overclocking my CPUs. I am sure so do the majority of you. But how far to go? When do you say, this is it, I won't risk damaging parts. 

Now to my question. I want to buy a G3258 AE and overclock the shit out of it. I'd have no problem with killing it in the process, however I'd like to keep my motherboard. Question being, how far can I push the voltage without damaging the motherboard? Will the ample voltage only damage the transistors on the CPU or also aspects of the mainboard? 

I have done 1.48V in the past without any component damage. Was that just luck? 

 

Thanks for your replies

 

-vT

[harrynowl]

@Jumper118 has gone to ~1.55v with no issues.

 

@ProKoN has gone well over 1.6v, I think he's killed 1 or 2 at 1.8v+

 

I myself have done ~1.475v on Haswell as I can't afford to kill my 4690K

[A Bubble]

How long do you intend to run the system?

[IvIast3r]

i have done 1.5v on my 3820 but that was by mistake as i missed the auto level up bs

 

and it was long enough for me to boot and see that the settings changed with cpu-z, so no damage done

[A Bubble]

i have done 1.5v on my 3820 but that was by mistake as i missed the auto level up bs

 

and it was long enough for me to boot and see that the settings changed with cpu-z, so no damage done

I did exactly that but with 1.8v..  Thought I typed 1.08.

[virtualTune]

I plan on only buying it for a max overclock. So it will be a very short OC, maybe 5 minutes. So my motherboard, Sabertooth z97 won't take any damage during the process of killing the CPU?

[IvIast3r]

I did exactly that but with 1.8v..  Thought I typed 1.08.

you probably had to change your underwear after that

[runit3]

I plan on only buying it for a max overclock. So it will be a very short OC, maybe 5 minutes. So my motherboard, Sabertooth z97 won't take any damage during the process of killing the CPU?

There's always a possibility of blowing a board with an OC. Although if the only setting you touch is Vcore and the multiplier you're limiting your chances -stay away from PCH & RAM voltages (run at rated).

[Jumper118]

I plan on only buying it for a max overclock. So it will be a very short OC, maybe 5 minutes. So my motherboard, Sabertooth z97 won't take any damage during the process of killing the CPU?

the sabertooth should have a solid vrm. as long as you keep it under 80c it won't start degrading quickly until over 1.6-1.7v so that should be you limit unless you are willing to kill it. the reason why i haven't put mine much higher than 1.55v is because at that point my air cooling is ramping the cpu fans up to 100% which means its over 80c and also mine doesn't really scale at all past 4.9ghz so to get 5.1ghz i would need well over 1.6v. it will depend on your cpu as to whether its even worth pushing it to high voltage. if it can do over 4.7 on 1.3v then you have a good chance of it getting some decent benchmark scores, but if you need 1.5v for 4.5ghz then its not really worth it.